Tag: coffee

  • Coffee-Doodle-Do  On a Quest for Araku Coffee

    Coffee-Doodle-Do On a Quest for Araku Coffee

    vital aspect of the ritual of waking up, the cup of coffee, with my first cup of coffee, I pray, its a silent prayer sung while the mind is still foggy and blue,”O Magic cup,” it goes,”carry me above the traffic jam. Keep me civil in the subway.And forgive employer as you forgive me.Amen”—by the…

  • Kaapi kathe- Malabar Monsooned Coffee

    Kaapi kathe- Malabar Monsooned Coffee

    The Monsooned Malbar coffee Let’s take the coffee pledge for the coffee workers. Centuries ago when coffee beans were transported to Europe in ships, six months of travel caused an amazing transformation to the seeds. The monsoon caused the beans to swell and change colour, it acquired an intensely mellow flavour. Now this magic is…

  • Baba Budan Saheb the Patron Saint of Cafficionado

    Baba Budan Saheb the Patron Saint of Cafficionado

    Marie Von Tropp finds it easy to say let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start with. Obviously she does not know, coffee is the right place to start with. With the wafting fragrance of coffee, the day begins and as the coffee falls into the stomach it triggers a commotions.…

  • A Reason for Treason.

    A Reason for Treason.

    The morning sounds of a typical southern house was on. Mallamma making coffee,  her husband who in a rural set up would have been called “Aiyaa’ (these days it was “Saar ” or “Sirji” depending on where he was stationed, or where his children were stationed) going through “The Hindu”. Now Mallamma was very diligent…

  • Coffee-Cat

    I love my coffee. Over my lifetime I don’t know how many cups of coffee I’ve had but take my word for it – it’s a lot. Over all that time coffee has gone from just something I accepted as normal to hero or villain depending on what narrative was trendy at the time. […] via…

  • Check list to a morning routine.

    A nights restful sleep. When the sleep debt is paid, the body is rejuvenated, because it is rested and repaired. Irrelevant thoughts are flushed out as fantasies. Waking up to a smell is of course much more satisfying than waking up to a noise, instead of barging in uninvited and yaking you out into reality…